The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-19
1lt ti, Democrat an
Barney.

t.- hHl Il.li-s confirmed by ilr Texas
statesman ory. word. The Glooe.Deinociat
.t-. 20 ert.ai Il, c,u.ratu.tti- Il, 20 that
gentleman. He has 'sEcu h.s at-t-tcp toward
t.. republic u camp. and of course. the first
step e. iue Que most ilfacuit 'ouake The
s.eoul sep. wilton w.! land HIM il the re-
publ can rdi. can hard be postponed more
t.a1 , gear or ,wo longer As captain Of tue
KID. Mr. Glib. dii noble service for tn
democracy. and undoubtedly added l1QO0 or
% Vo to tael61i 60 plurality VII .ch t.. % ptrts
rolled % ussi year IN the election for spyetuo-
A year or two hence We e Npecl to SEE him SIN
u.oyiug his ,lo4uence AMI energy in behalf OF
Il better parry anl sIauier cause than n
ntS hiiu,rto SUPP ported. The lemocra's can
lore SO. % or 5000 follower, In Texas without
missing them, but one-quart-t that many
nov members would be very acceptable 20 the
republicans. Une.s Mr.. GIBBS bring, over at
/ least l2,uJ staiwart voters with him TO the
repub .can party the Globe Democrat " III b.
reluctantly compelled to confess that 1t has
/ vastly oyere.tl.uaied his zeal AMI persussiy-
ness. Globe Democrat.
Whenever q Texas democrat a.
prominent and influential rs Mr.. Bar
nett Gibbs has been goes over
: to repuDlcanism, they always make a
/ great fuss over him. They pat him
/ on the back, cheer MIN, and the
( pew doors in the temple are open to
| him, and the breyet republican is
/ fctcd, dined, wined and praised, ad
ntiuitum and ad nauteum But there
tx Que marked Characteristic alb out it
all he never gets smell Of the Ioayes
and fishes. These good things are
always, and properly so, too, reserved
for the old hacks who have borne the
| heat and burden of the day. Bar
ncy's lapse, while it Is welcome as are
the roses in June to republicans Of
the Globe Democratic stripe, yet has
very little satisfaction for the l.psee.
He is left. Left out i'll the bleak biz
zard which viii blow from the direc-
ton of the camps of his deserted
friends and former allies, but which
will not be thawcd or ameliorated by
the ardor of the smiles of his newly
found coajutors. We haze always in
clined to the theory that the demuc-
rscy of Texas had made too much of
Barney. The dark browed statesman
has all unlimited cheek but very
meagre supply of the sort of stuff
out Of which political permancy is
made, aud this last escapade is most
competent evidence OF it. Be assured
that, whenever a Texan democrat, as
such, does thing which the Globe
Democrat can praise, politically, he
is decidedly on the very wrong track
The Globe-Democrat has been strong
and consistent all the years of its tur-
bucnt life only in its extreme hatred
of the Texan democracy, and now
Barney wins its warmest
plaudits, except those for
James G.. Blame and probably
for Lincoln. No such personal plaud,
1t has ever appeared in its columns, as
the above for Gibbs. This settles
matters 80 far as its regard for Bar
ney goes, and its honey and guile is
for other high-tarlff democrats(?)
who are wayering and faltering be-
tween their desires to shove their
spoon into republican porridge, and
that shame that Barney must feel
when he recalls the steady democratic
hosts, upon whose bosoms he has so
often been rocked to sleep in the very
h our of victory.
The GIobe-Democrat has over .esti-
mated Bsrney's Importance we believe.
lie has been rather pet aud play
thing than leader OF the democratic |
hosts OF Texas. These same hosts |
will mourn as woman docs when her !
favorite canary dies, or as a girl does
W hen she breaks the toes of her chi
IA doll, but no Texan democrats
ayes will fill rs they did when Tilden
Or Tom Hendricks died, or when sam
Randall went over to the high tariff
losts, Barney is good fellow. He
els Joke admirably and
,au set out n champaign
unch to lot of hun
Try newspaper men with
Ltiuite grace. But they will carve on
lis democratic tombstone no record
Of great measures attempted or &c
The Globes Demo cr4t
ais this the first step toward the
camp, All! with men of
}aruey's stamp the first step il the
whole hog. We have hidden him
adj, teartu, and tender farewell. We
NOW whore he will come GU, at. We
AVE had many OF them attempt 90
AIRY protection on one shoulder aud
'ure, simple Jeilersonisn democracy
n the other but always with the
anne result. 1t won't work. 1t can't.